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| DRAM contract prices to rise in July |
6/26/2009 |
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Contract prices for DRAM chips have started showing signs of a rebound contrary to weak spot trading, the sources said. The price gap between branded finished memory chips and eTT (effective tested) chips is expected to widen significantly in the second half of 2009.
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| SSD not mainstream until later |
6/26/2009 |
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With hard disks now priced at about $.07/GB, SSDs are positioned as a premium upgrade for notebooks, and a minimal baseline for netbooks. With prices on the rise, though, the attractiveness of this sell is diminished.
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| Memory industry continue to slide |
6/26/2009 |
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What's next? Observers wonder if Taiwan's DRAM makers will go under. Even the bigger players--Elpida, Hynix and Micron--are on the ropes.
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| Micron continues in operational lost |
6/26/2009 |
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The Boise, Idaho-based company's net loss widened to $290 million, or 36 cents per share, in the fiscal third quarter ended June 4, from $236 million, or 30 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Net sales for the latest quarter dropped to $1.1 billion
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| Inotera joins Nanya in predicting chip prices to rise |
6/25/2009 |
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Makers of memory chips, which temporarily hold data and help computer processors run multiple programs simultaneously, lost a combined $12.5 billion in the past two years, the most ever, according to Gartner Inc. analyst Andrew Norwood in London.
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| Electronics memory was invented |
6/25/2009 |
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The 1967 invention was patented in 1968 and began to appear in products in the 1970s. Cheaper, faster and less power hungry than the earlier magnetic memory, DRAM became the standard.
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| Intel switch China fab to 65nm |
6/25/2009 |
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''We originally announced it at 90-nm, but said there was a chance that we'd go to 65-nm. We have the U.S. government license, so that when we start we'll be on 65-nm,'' according to a spokesman at Intel.
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| New memory company claims no wear out non-volatile |
6/25/2009 |
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The wide band-gap characteristics of SIC-on-silicon technology enables ''fast read and write times'' and ''no wear out'' capabilities for its proposed devices. ''We're simply trapping a charge in SiC,'' Goodman said. "SiC is great for that.''
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| SSD to HDD ratio is low |
6/24/2009 |
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Because of uncertain demand, makers also expressed doubts whether SSDs would go mainstream replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in 2010. Though the flash-based drives can improve PC performance and reduce power consumption, HDDs are still competitive in terms of pricing, the makers said.
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| Qimonda being sold in pieces |
6/24/2009 |
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Qimonda's core assets such as patents and the fabs however are still in the hand of the insolvency administrator. Thus, a large-scale solution still would possible. At least theoretically.
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| Gartner projects sustained recovery |
6/24/2009 |
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The research company said that electronic equipment markets should begin a recovery in Q4 of this year, allowing the electronics industry to enter into a sustained recovery — as measured by a rolling 12-month comparison with the prior year — in the second half of 2010 with a reacceleration in sales in 2011.
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| Intel to regain ground lost to AMD |
6/23/2009 |
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"Also, we think some of AMD's better-than-expected Q1 revenues were a result of aggressive pricing actions, potentially impeding some of the firm's gross margin recovery. Finally, AMD may cede a couple of points of market share gained in Q1 as customer price sensitivity decreases, given broader signs of global economic stabilization,"
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| Intel to announce design win with Nokia |
6/23/2009 |
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A news agency has reported Intel Corp. is set to announce it has struck an agreement to supply wireless chips to Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile handset manufacturer.
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| IBM and Intel head to head on high performance computing |
6/23/2009 |
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Intel made modest gains as the dominant processor supplier in the latest version of the Top 500 supercomputer list released Tuesday (June 23) at a conference in Hamburg. But IBM retained its standing with the number one system on the list, the so-called Roadrunner which in May 2008 became the first to break the petaflops barrier.
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| Nokia Siemens will pay $650M for Nortel assets |
6/22/2009 |
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Nokia Siemens Networks said it has struck an agreement to pay $650 million for the next-generation wireless technology business of Canada's bankrupt communications equipment vendor Nortel Networks Inc.
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| iSuppli said worldwide chip sales to pick up sequentially |
6/19/2009 |
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Global chip sales in the first quarter declined to $44.3 billion, down 18.8 percent from $54.5 billion in the fourth quarter, and a decline of 33.8 percent from $66.8 billion in the first quarter of 2008, according to market tracker iSuppli.
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